Neha Aggarwal Sharma (born 11 January 1990) is an Indian

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player who participated in the

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, the only woman from India to feature in that discipline. Aggarwal earned her position at the Olympics by defeating

Poulomi Ghatak Poulomi Ghatak ( Bengali: পৌলমী ঘটক; born 3 January 1983) is a table tennis player from West Bengal, India. She won three junior national championships (1996, 1998 and 1999) as well as seven senior national championships between ...

and

Mouma Das Mouma Das (; born 24 February 1984) is an Indian table tennis player. Born and brought up in Kolkata, West Bengal, she has represented India in international events since the early 2000s. Das has won multiple medals at the Commonwealth Games i ...

, who had been favored to win. The

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girl, who did her schooling from Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram and her college from St. Stephen's College, Delhi, was the winner of Junior National Table Tennis Championship held at

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and

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. She did not receive a medal, having been eliminated after losing to Chinese born Australian Jiang Fang Lay. She has a Masters in Sports Management from Columbia University, New York.

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Delhi Public SchoolTV Asia's special feature on Indian Olympic athlete Neha Aggarwal – Columbia University – NYC
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Table tennis at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games

Living people Indian female table tennis players Olympic table tennis players for India Sportswomen from Delhi Delhi Public School alumni 1990 births Table tennis players at the 2014 Asian Games 21st-century Indian women 21st-century Indian people Asian Games competitors for India Table tennis players at the 2008 Summer Olympics {{India-tabletennis-bio-stub

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